Making the world a better place - Wording by Ladybird1 of KindSpring

 Making The World A Better Place In Little Ways...

 --by Ladybird1, on Nov 23, 2017

 OK, so this is my longest post so far. And it is about something which I personally care about deeply. So here goes. I have been trying to do my bit for the environment lately to reduce my carbon footprint. (I was shocked to find little plastic particles on many home and foreign beaches lately - all resulting from plastic waste dumped into the sea. Just imagine all those fish swallowing that plastic and if we eat fish, we are absorbing that plastic too... Delicious eh?)

Anyway, here are some little things I have been implementing into my life:
- clearing out my cupboards and decluttering things I do not need, use nor love anymore and recycling the rest accordingly or donating stuff in good condition to charities.
- going shopping with new eyes and asking myself. Will I really; NEED it, USE it or LOVE it? Very effective, as I'm saving my pennies better ;-)
- buying recycled toilet paper for the first time and surprised to find it is actually softer than it looks ;-)
- buying recycled paper towels for the kitchen.
- not buying any more paper napkins but using pretty cloth napkins instead.
- buying yoghurt in glass jars as opposed to plastic tubs, as they can get recycled at the bottle bank.
- finally using up all those little hotel shampoos and soaps from years of my travels and disposing the plastic wrappers properly. I have promised myself not to bring back any more home. Even if they ARE freebies ;-)
- eating ice-cream from a wafer cone and not a plastic tub. Hubby gets my cone ;-)
- using old holey socks as cleaning rags.
- using the other side of old paper for my printer.
- choosing electric appliances with “A+“ energy efficiency labels which don't eat up so much electricity.
- not driving on the motorway so fast as before and sticking to suggested speed limits in order to reduce carbon emissions.

I wouldn't call myself a “greenie“ as such (and I still see room for personal improvement when it comes to using the car, flying or using water lavishly which makes me a bit guilty...)  but as a nature lover who adores animals, plants, the sea and trees, I'm worried about the state of nature and where it could go... Some politicians (whether fuelled by profit, greed, power or out of sheer ignorance) simply do not seem to care. But in my opinion I feel it is OUR responsibility to care and should do our bit in little ways, whether it is a case of recycling what we do not need, use nor love anymore or reviewing and changing our consumer habits in little ways. After all, we only have one world. And look at the state of it already what with pollution, and so on.

Just imagine if everybody implemented some little changes to make the world /nature a better and cleaner place for us and our children and future generations to come. Wouldn't that be marvellous?
If you were to do your bit for mother nature in tiny little ways on a day to day basis, what would YOU do? What have you already tried out? 

 - Ladybird1 on www.kindspring.org  LINK: http://www.kindspring.org/my/feed/index.php?sid=150978

Anti Fracking Protectors!

What is Fracking? - SHOCKING!!! 

 

 Are you AGAINST or for??!

fracking¹

ˈfrakɪŋ/

noun

noun: fracking

the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc. so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.

 One of the nearest ones Kirby Misperton has it's own camp and is fighting the cause! Please comment below on your thoughts about protecting our envronment! - Please be nice! No foul langauge!! Or if your a fellow member of the Kirby Misperton Protection Camp Group feel free to say hi too! :) 

What would be your tips and advice on how to put the awarness out for anti fracking? etc ...

 Facebook Page: Kirby Misperton Forward Protection Camp - Lock the Gate!

Now most of you would now I am all  or mostly for saving or to help save thei earth and her people, I just found this group not a while back in Kirby Misperton near Pickering that's part of the Anti-fracking movement or rather trying to stop people ruining our landscapes and the earth.

The Fracking up here in North Yorkshire, England most likely like anywhere else in the UK that suffers from it is constantly in videos on youtube and the news and heres just one of many that are all over the internet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-41759231

They also have a petition up on the 38 degrees website and will also post it to the group that I am on on facebook.  Here is the link if you would be interested in signing and your against the whole Fracking!!

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/support-kirby-misperton-protection-camp?just_launched=true

They can also be found on the http://www.energyroyd.org.uk/archives/15959 along with several others - not this page may be updated, please do comment if you want links added... 


STAY STRONG AND SAFE!

Blessings, Rae.

Follow it! ...

Go on follow your heart <3 if not your gut!

Be Kind... :)

ElfQuest and it's show!

I am a big fan of the long running American Graphic Book/comic after several years ago prob about 5 years ago my now 'Soul Sister in all but blood ' hint to the series itself! Shadowfire got me into it. Mindfull elves battling the humans...

The links are to check out and to see what ElfQuest and it's creators Wendy and Richard Pini.

www.elfquest.com   and it has it's own PODCAST Show!! By David and Ryan https://soundcloud.com/theelfquestshow/ep34-part-1  That is Part one that I am currently listening to of the issues of the final recent quest.

The series has spanned over 35 years of pointed ears of the 4 foot elves! Go and check it out!!

and come back to say if your hooked or not hehe...

CGI 3D Animated Short: "Farewell" - by ESMA

I found these short animations that I thought I'd share out... enjoy.

Here are some sayings for you to enjoy amongst your random days of what ever you are doing! ... :D

"If you don't do wild things while your young, you'll have nothing to smile about when your old"
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!"

"Not all that wander are lost"

Youtube Dedication Post! :D [SUPER CARLIN BROTHERS]

www.youtube.com/user/SuperCarlinBrothers

Hey People, Yup, you guessed it another reccommendation post from me these two brothers do theories on films and almost anything from Disney, Pixar to Harry Potter... 

 Go and check them out on the link above! 

Definatly worth a watching if your a nerdy fan! 

Gotta love Ben and J!

New videos or vlogs up every Tuesday and Thursday on several different topics!!

Their bio says:

Two brothers. Jonathan "J" Carlin and Ben Carlin. Proud Slytherins, Narwhal Detectives, Pixar Theorists, Bagel Eaters, Google Autofillers and Grizzly Eagle Shark lovers. We tend to overthink things - If it has to do with Pixar, Disney, Marvel, Star Wars or Harry Potter you'll probably find it here. =D

So what you waiting for! 

Blessings, Rae

Ohh, and p.s. If you want a reccommendation or dedication vlog email me on raevienne.hewitt@gmail.com and I'll try and put you up if you give me a bio of yourselves and links! :D

Travel Bugs Travelling the world!

Hello All! Rae here again for another blog,

Not been feeling very well but that's not going to stop me blogging so here goes... an interesting one this time I hope for you all with some pictures from my travel bug pages from the www.geocaching.com website ... Geocaching is like a treasure hunt but for all ages, finding hidden boxes all around the world all different sizes... but this post is not just about them its about the one thing mostly that us 'Cachers' put in them other then the 'Swag' we leave for others... this one is to move from cache or geocache to another geocache and so on... It's the TRAVEL BUG! This is what the company Groundspeak who started it off in the USA said or rather having just googled it in a search engine we all know and love hehe hmm... here goes...:

Simply put, a Groundspeak Travel Bug is a trackable tag that you attach to an item. This allows you to track your item on Geocaching.com. The item becomes a hitchhiker that is carried from cache to cache (or person to person) in the real world and you can follow its progress online.

How do I log a travel bug?

If the goal is to move the Travel Bug to the west coast, don't put the Travel Bug in a cache farther east.

1. Visit the Cache Listing. Visit the cache listing for the cache in which you placed the Travel Bug. ...
2. Visit the "log a cache" Page. ...
3. Select the Travel Bug to drop off.          
4.  and put it in a cache! tadar! hehe... oh    (cant seem to get rid of the no 4 lol!
   
   What is the meaning of travel bug?
   travel bug (idiom)- strong desire to travel. to be bitten by the travel bug (idiom)- kind of a cute way to say when someone begins to want to travel. After the "bug" bites you, you will really want to travel. to wander- to go from one place to another without any definite plans.
    

 Now on with some of my TBS pics and where they've been... :

FTF Micro Coin - Use TB640DT to reference this item.

 As simple as:

Current GOAL

FTF MICRO COIN - to travel to all UK caches!

About This Item

A small geocoin

Travelled:

5398mi

 

Rae and Mia go Looming Crazy!

TB6CB4Y 

Note on this TB Trackable - Original gone missing.
The copy tag is about to be sent off on it's journey again, but this time with a new purpose! We are wanting to get to the 10th UK Anniversary Mega in Yorkshire!  Along the way i wish to collect as many keyrings that can attach to us as possible! Can you help me? Attach them to us and move us from cache to cache until we arrive at the UK MEGA IN 2018 HAPPY CACHING! Please take a pic or two. I would like to be reunited with my owner at the Mega event.

About This Item

Two Teddy bears named after the TB owner and her favourite caching dog Mia (Mel and Freddie's loveable doggie) One of England's most fashionable latest crazes of the year 2014!  The Loom Bands, but are they global and how many keyrings can we get on before we reach the Mega in 2018??

 Rae loves ladybirds

TB78FCB

Travelled over 10086.9 miles!!

Hello my name is Rae.  My favourite insect is the Ladybird. Because ever since I was a child, Ladybirds have always seemed to fascinate me or landed on me which I have forever thought to be lucky. Like most sayings! I find them to be my totem animal along with the Blackbird.

First if you wish to try and have a go at logging a travel bug try out with the one thats always on me, I ask people to discover, grab and place me everywhere to clock up miles and then I go and grab it back... so all you need to do is follow this:

Go to www.geocaching.com 

If you do not have an account you can easily set one up for free you don't have to geocache all the time or just find one or two... see where your craze takes you hehe! 

Press Play at the top and go down to trackables

In the search bit type in WBX9FJ (my trackable) and click log at the right hand side and enter your message say hello to me or something and say where your from and that you found my from my blog! 

Press log trackable and poof you've done it! Your first if not many trackables! :D 

 Now for some pictures from the tb page...

  Thanks

Cachers! :D

 

If you see yourself 

please track me at 

WBX9FJ! 

 

BLESSINGS RAE! <3  

Ni Hao 你 好

Hello Lovlies, Earth warriors/ Eco worshipers / tea lovers and if your like me crazy british tea book worms! :D

Just got this lovely message from a lady in Taiwan from postcrossing.com and I thought I would share it with you:

“"Hello
( 你 好 )
/ni hao/
What a totally amazing card and format. One of the best and most intriguing I have received via postcrossing!I really like it very much:)

Brilliant.
Thank you for your interesting card; I received it on the 1st of November. I think the postmen did a very good job :D
Not only the front of your postcard is beautiful but your story at the back is even more.
(By the way; I love your handwriting.)
It's nice that people do some effort to tell something more about interesting things from their country!!
Also thanks for your best wishes
I wish you the same.
Have a wonderful day(祝你有個美好的一天)
Greets from
Doris黃雅君"”

- I'm suprised the Taiwanese (?? Please correct me if that is what you call people from Taiwan!!) postal service and ours got to them in less then 11 days, now I sent one to my pen pal in Scotland and it took her to recieve it a maximum of 158 days!!! BLIMEY, I've had like this one, one from Australia take less!!

If you'd like to see the postcard its on: www.postcrossing.com as GB-942917 :D

Bright Blessings!

Crazy Rae hehe !